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Processes
* Low alloy carbon steel
* Weight range: from 1 to 45 kg
Facilities
Melting:
* 7 1500-kg induction furnaces
* 30 grades of steel
* Grade inspection using spectrometry
Coremaking:
* Automatic sand plant
* Cold core box
* Laempe machine
Casting:
* Automatic HWS casting bay
- 120 moulds / h
- 650 / 500 / 250 /250 formats
* Automatic sand plant
* Automated pouring by image analysis from a SERT bridge crane with a 1500-kg bottom pouring ladle
Finishing:
* Shotblasting machine
* Automated abrasive cutoff machine
* Straightening press
* Cutting / Arcair / Grinding / Welding stations
Heat treatment:
* a 12-tonnes furnace and a 1-tonne furnace
* Normalizing, homogenising anneal
* Water quenching and tempering (maximum temperature: 1050°C)
Quality framework:
- 1992 : ISO 9002
- 1993 : Total Quality Programme
- 1994 : AQF2
- 1995 : Three-year extension of ISO 9002
- 1997 : Implementation of 5S
- 1999 : Formalisation of the Improvement Plan
- 2002 : QS 9000
- 2003 : ISO 14000
Address of SMC
2 rue du Doubs
BP 39
F - 25260 COLOMBIER - FONTAINE
Tel.: +33 (0)3 81 91 51 10
Fax: +33 (0)3 81 97 60 27
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